Sunday, April 26, 1998 Last modified at 2:49 a.m. on Sunday, April 26, 1998

H.V. Gruben

TULIA (Special) - Services for H.V. Gruben, 79, of Tulia will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Davenport, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Wallace Funeral Home.

Gruben died Saturday, April 25, 1998, in St. Anthony's Hospice in Amarillo.

He was born May 21, 1918, in Royston. He married Marie Stanford Thomas on Aug. 9, 1971, in Kingsville. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He graduated from Rotan High School. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He moved to Tulia from Rotan in 1957.

He was a manager for Clayton Brothers Gin for 33 years.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Gary of Eldorado and Ron of Bedford; a sister, Inez Purser of Merkel; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.